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In the effective field theory (EFT), the positivity bound on dim-8 effective operators tells us that the $s^2$ contribution in the scattering amplitude of 2-to-2 process geometrically corresponds to the convex cone composed of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-11 Chengjie Yang , Zhe Ren , Jiang-Hao Yu

This thesis aims at providing better understanding of the perturbative expansion of gauge theories with and without supersymmetry. At tree level, the BCFW recursion relations are analyzed with respect to their validity for general off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-30 Alexander Ochirov

We revisit the problem of building consistent interactions for a multiplet of partially massless spin-2 fields in (anti-)de Sitter space. After rederiving and strengthening the existing no-go result on the impossibility of Yang-Mills type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Nicolas Boulanger , Cédric Deffayet , Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Lucas Traina

Scattering amplitudes in 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) can be described by Grassmannian contour integrals whose form depends on whether the external data is encoded in momentum space, twistor space, or momentum twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Henriette Elvang , Yu-tin Huang , Cynthia Keeler , Thomas Lam , Timothy M. Olson , Samuel B. Roland , David E. Speyer

Using the recently introduced recursion relations with covariant massive-massless shift, we study tree-level scattering amplitudes involving a pair of massive vector bosons and an arbitrary number of gluons in the massive spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Sourav Ballav , Arkajyoti Manna

We review unitarity and crossing constraints on scattering amplitudes for particles with spin in four dimensional quantum field theories. As an application we study two to two scattering of neutral spin 1/2 fermions in detail. Assuming…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-29 Aditya Hebbar , Denis Karateev , Joao Penedones

High energy fixed angle scattering is studied in matrix string theory. The saddle point world sheet configurations, which give the dominant contributions to the string theory amplitude, are taken as classical backgrounds in matrix string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas Wynter

Using the BRST approach to higher spin field theories we develop a generic technique for constructing the cubic interaction vertices for N=1 supersymmetric massless higher spin fields on four, six and ten dimensional flat backgrounds. Such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 I. L. Buchbinder , V. A. Krykhtin , Mirian Tsulaia , Dorin Weissman

In this paper, we give the general expressions for a special series of tree amplitudes of the Yang-Mills theory. This series of amplitudes have two adjacent massless spin-1 particles with extra-dimensional momenta and any number of positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-08 Yang An , Yi Li

Effective Field Theory (EFT) stands as a cornerstone in modern theoretical physics, offering a powerful framework for describing the dynamics of physical systems across a wide range of energy scales. This article provides an in-depth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Waqas Riaz

The recently introduced anomaly-free twistor string in 4 dimensions is further explored. The spectrum based on the physical states and its Minkowski interpretation are examined. Scattering amplitudes with vertex operators involving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Christian Kunz

Quantum many-body systems in one dimension (1D) exhibit some peculiar properties. In this article, we review some of our work on strongly interacting 1D spinor quantum gas. First, we discuss a generalized Bose-Fermi mapping that maps the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-07 Li Yang , Shah Saad Alam , Han Pu

Effective field theories (EFTs) are widely used to study many-body systems by describing two-body interactions using zero-ranged contact potentials. However, when extended to three-body processes, these contact interactions lead to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-02 Corinne Beckers , Jacques Tempere , Jeff Maki , Denise Ahmed-Braun

We study the spin splitting in the heavy quarkonium hybrid spectrum within the framework of an nonrelativistic effective field theory. We derive for the first time the spin-dependent part of the heavy-quark-antiquark potential for heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Wai Kin Lai

In N=4 super Yang-Mills spin chain, we compute reflection amplitudes of magnon bound-state off giant graviton. We first compute the reflection amplitude off Y=0 brane boundary and compare it with the scattering amplitude between two magnon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Changrim Ahn , Dongsu Bak , Soo-Jong Rey

Helicity is a useful concept both for AdS${}_4$ and CFT${}_3$ studies. We work out the complete AdS${}_4$/CFT${}_3$ dictionary for spinning fields/operators in the spinor-helicity base that allows one to scalarize any $n$-point contact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-19 Evgeny Skvortsov , Yihao Yin

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework that exploits a separation of scales in physical systems to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. Particularly interesting are few-body systems with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 H. -W. Hammer

We present a map between the tree-level Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT) in the Warsaw basis and massive on-shell amplitudes. As a first step, we focus on the electroweak sector without fermions. We describe the Feynman rules for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Rafael Aoude , Camila S. Machado

We consider the effective field theory of multiple interacting massive spin-2 fields. We focus on the case where the interactions are chosen so that the cutoff is the highest possible, and highlight two distinct classes of theories. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Lasma Alberte , Claudia de Rham , Arshia Momeni , Justinas Rumbutis , Andrew J. Tolley

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the high-energy behavior of colorless dipole elastic scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM gauge theory through the Wilson loop correlator formalism and Euclidean to Minkowskian analytic continuation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-16 Matteo Giordano , Robi Peschanski